Garment-supporter.



c. B. WING.

y GARMENT SUPPORTERfy APPLICATION FILED APR. 3 |915- Patent-ed Aug..14, 1917.

CHARLES Bi WrNctoF .CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.-

Toall whom-t may concern."

Beitknownfthat I, CHARLES-B; WING, a citizenof'the United States, residingat Cedar Rapids, in the county offlginn and State of Iowa, havefinvented certain new and useful Improvements] in *Garment-Supporters; and I do herebydeclarethe following tobe'a full, clear,aiid exactdescr iptioniy of the invention, vsuch as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. f

, The object of the present invention is to improve the construction" of garment sup,-

- porters and to provide asimple, practical, 15

and inexpensive device adapted to bemannfactured from small scraps of material left over from otherwork and capable of beingV readily applied to and removed from a gar- Vment and of supporting a pair of drawers from the waist band of the trousers and of eectively preventing them from slipping down out of place. l

. A further object of the invention is to provide a garment supporter of this character adapted to be comfortably worn without any inconvenience to the wearer and without tearing or wearing the drawers or the trousers. With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement Ofparts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the yaccompanying drawings and pointed'o'ut in i the claim hereto appended, it being understood that variousv changes in the form, pro` portion and minor detailsgof construction may be resorted to withoutl vdeparting, from the spirit or sacricing any of the advantages of the invention.

` In the drawing x Figure l is a plan view of the blank from which the device is formed,

Figi 2 is an elevation of the garment 'sup 4 porter, i

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View showing the garment supporter applied to a pair of drawers and trousers,l v

F ig.` 4 is a detail horizontal sectional view illustrating the arrangement of the bead o-r ball with relation to the supported garmentA Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings. In the accompanyingy drawingin which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of costf of construction but?.` tlie' k"blank .in

'topflange and outer' depending'engagingportions 4 which are-preferably in the forni `65 of spacedsegmental lips or lugs.v yThe plate ffy j or bodyv portion ofthe 'garment'y supporter1 Ais preferably substantiallyA T-shaped Iand the i' .the ""invention,'-"the garment supporter isf l "formed 'from a time i,` l@onslisting efjia ,A i

Saa@ ne@ are# Samper small* scrap? pieces offfnfi'aterial Vto' fles rial and itisjbent transversely flange extends entirelyacross'ithetop pontion with the lugs or lips 4 atthef`end of 70 'the flalflge.'vv n. j X I The body'portion is provided with a v ertical slotor opening 5 enlarged to'` form an\ 151 entrance 6 at theupperend vto permit a portion of the material of thev drawers 7 to beI 75' Passed thOUgh'the enlarged portion or entrance G' and engage with the slotor opening 5 at the 10W constricted portion there;`

of. The-plate', or body portion 2'is arranged y y ,between the drawers 7 and the trousers 880217' and in order to enable .the device to securely' t f hold the drawersrit isiequippedfwith'aball v i or bead 9 which is connected` with the upperr portion of the vbody Qby va silk cordlfor other' suitableflexible connection. The body '85, Y or'plate is providedv atithe upper portion u v adjacenttoone ofthe arms of the lT ,-with' aperforation '11 at the endof the cord l()y .i which is passedthrough theperforation 11y y is providedvwith a knot l2 or other suitable means fory retaining itA inl thev perforation ll. -The ball or bead'9 isvprovide'dwitlia central vopening 13 and the cord 'l0 lafte r.

- beingpassed 'through thesameis provided 1 1* 'f i witha knot 1 4 or other suitablestop. f 'The 495 material ofthe drawers is,v placed around or.,

; partially around the ball vor beadand yis i passed through the yentrance slotor portion 6 and drawn down yinto-the constricted or g lower portion* of the slot 5. This may belo` v readily done before putting on the garmentvv i and jin practice the garment 'supporter is ,j

- designed to be used insets' of 4. The;.top {iange `3 rests uponthe` upperf edge, of ythe j waistband of.' the trousersand thelipg01jf1o5ff flanges extendv downwardly on the eXterio'rla v vthereof and-securely connect the'drawers t0- 14 the l'trousers so. that the former is securely supported in proper position and are effec.- 1 tively prevented from dropping orslipping lior out 0f place. By means ofy the device a two piece garment of the' ordinary form may nal edge of the headof the body bent back upon itself to provide a retaining flange, the peripheral edge of the ange provided at opposite ends with depending lugs to facilitate thel insertion of the `retaining flange of thevheadabout the upper edge of a garmentV to` support `the plate; thereto, said stem of ythe T-shaped plate provided withea longitudinally extending key hole slot havingy an upper enlarged portion and a lower constricted portion, and a flexible member having one end secured to the head adjacent one end thereof, and a ball secured to the free end of the flexible member adapted to wedge a portion of the garment into the enlargedportion of the key hole slot and thenl forced down into the constrictedportion thereof to retain the garment about vthe Waist of the wearer.

ln testimony whereof l aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

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. Washingtcmn. G. 

